单词 | fallage |
释义 | fallagen. Now historical and rare. The action or process of felling or cutting down trees. Formerly also: †the right to fell trees in a particular tract of land (obsolete). Cf. fellage n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees fallinga1425 felling1447 fell1531 fall1535 woodfall1588 slaughter1657 logging1706 tree-felling1759 fallage1788 slashing1822 fellage1839 wood-cutting1872 throw1879 bush-falling1882 drive1899 bushwhacking1906 clear-cutting1922 coupe1922 landnam1950 1788 T. W. Williams Orig. Precedents in Conveyancing I. 36 The said coppices and woods..which shall be fallen for bark or charcoal in a regular course of fallage during the said term of twelve years. 1856 Archæologia Cambrensis 9 18 Subsequent examination, made after periodical fallage of coppices, has enabled me to trace its [sc. the dyke's] remains in another line. 1892 R. M. Garnier Hist. Eng. Landed Interest xxiv. 322 He took care that there was no waste of fuel at the servants' fire; and began to replenish his supplies by the fallage of timber. 1906 T. A. Street Found. Legal Liability I. x. 157 The person to whom he had sold the fallage, felled a tree so that it fell over the fence and made a gap in it. 1990 J. Moir World unto Themselves (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Leicester) ii. 90 Faggotting by this method..must be carefully distinguished from that which accompanied the principal fallage of timber in April/May. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1788 |
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